It is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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About Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The...

More quotations from Dodie Smith

All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

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I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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More quotations tagged with “morning”

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

—Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you've felt that way.

—Charles Bukowski

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